You’re right. It’d be great to have two teams that are working together, at the moment the Ubuntu NGO team are just finding their feet and getting organised, it’d be a bit much for me to (re-)bootstrap two teams.

foo: Are you involved with the Debian Non-Profit group? Can you liaise with the people there?

I’ve been working on a project like this with future plans of a web based version. The project’s name is Keryx and already has a couple of versions out and a growing community. You can check out our homepage here: http://keryxproject.org

It’s cross platform and we are building a library for it customizable enough to eventually work with multiple types of package systems, APT, RPM, etc. For now with the amount of contributors we have, APT is our main goal and to provide a full suite of features cross-platform for apt systems. I think that it truly might be something you guys would be interested in contributing to as it’s geared to newbies as well as advanced users since we have both a CLI and GUI together cross platform.

No worries if you don’t like it or feel that it’s what you’re looking for, but I figured I’d suggest as it certainly seems in the same aspect as what you guys might be looking for and we could definitely use some more code contributors.

Chris

http://www.olsr.org/?q=about

“The olsr.org OLSR daemon is an implementation of the Optimized Link State Routing protocol. As such it allows mesh routing for any network equipment.
It runs on any wifi card that supports ad-hoc mode and of course on any ethernet device.”

If Ubuntu was configured to set up automatic, ad-hoc mesh networking by default—as I think OLPC/Sugar managed to implement—then everyone in the world could have unlimited internet access for free.